Public Events

[ZeroAi]

I'm sure I'm not the first to suggest this (and I've mentioned it in other posts as well) but man I think optional public events would be very cool!

One way it could be implemented is, everyone in a system gets a message asking if they're willing to help one side or another in a battle between two capitol ships.

The two sides could be governments / factions / power players / pirates / humans versus aliens, etc based on the system itself and current events.

Whoever accepts would have the location automatically targeted for them, and they could head over and take part.

Players who help would get extra rank/rep with the side they helped, and the side that wins could get some bonus cash / stuff ;-)

Also, since you're fighting on behalf of someone else, why not let them pickup any re-buy / re-supply costs?

Might also be cool to let players who die stay on the field of battle in a "cloaked" escape pod so they can spectate the rest of the battle.

The first time I thought of this I was thinking about how fun this type of public event was in Destiny, especially after they increased the occurrence of them and sites sprouted up with the upcoming schedule - very fun.

I'm also aware some people in the forums will be vehemently opposed to this (or any change) so having a setting to "ignore" all public event notifications would be cool too.

So what do you think? Would you enjoy this? Have any ideas that could improve on what I've posted? Please share them below!


Frontier's early concept of something very similar - just picture vultures in place of sideys ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE8B4KptyVI

Peace,

CMDR TGS Grey
Terran Galactic Service

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

+1

I made a suggestion similar a while back after playing Guild Wars 2 for a while.
Their random events were fun, and just popped up randomly.

Something similar in ED would be excellent.
Especially if we get hostile aliens, or a Empire Federation war.

You could get alerts for sightings within 50ly and be invited to help, like a mini CG. Defend a Farragut from an alien onslaught, call to arms for the empire against the federation, even things like destroy a pirate base, etc etc
(My original idea was in system only, but the player population is so spread out, it wouldn't work)

 

[ZeroAi]

+1

I made a suggestion similar a while back after playing Guild Wars 2 for a while.
Their random events were fun, and just popped up randomly.

Something similar in ED would be excellent.
Especially if we get hostile aliens, or a Empire Federation war.

You could get alerts for sightings within 50ly and be invited to help, like a mini CG. Defend a Farragut from an alien onslaught, call to arms for the empire against the federation, even things like destroy a pirate base, etc etc
(My original idea was in system only, but the player population is so spread out, it wouldn't work)

Great ideas!

PS - Guild Wars is such a fun game!